Category Archives: fun

BIG Lights Farrrrrrrr Away

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Once in a while something comes into my photographic life that makes me realize how little I actually know about a specific topic.  This time it happened to be lighting.  Emmy was kind to me over Christmas and bought me a workshop in Vancouver taught by a photographer named Martin Prihoda.  As the name of the workshop suggests, it was focused on using big lights.  We are talking 2400 watt seconds of light being pushed out of a $8000 power pack.  If you look at most of our work, its easy to tell we love shallow depth of field.  One thing you learn very quickly while using big lights is that you have to shoot at F11 or above 95% of the time.  The weekend was great overall but frustrating at times as I was sharing the models and lights with 7 other people and would have loved to have gotten more time with both.  I would definitely recommend the workshop to anyone wanting to learn some good basic lighting principals.  Many thanks again Emmy!

Locations:  Ferrari Maserati dealershipGinger 62Century House

Hair/Makeup: (Ferrari/Century House) Felicia Bromba |  (Jenny Galt)  Frida

Stylist:  Amanda Eland

Models:  Kyla Lee  |  Kimberly Churchhill

Friends, Lambs, and Lovely Days

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We just had one of those weekends that we didn’t want to end. Good thing it was an extra long one!  Aaron’s birthday is this week – actually on thursday!!! – and his most favourite place to be is outside in nature.  If we don’t get out in the trees on a regular basis he gets a bit restless.  He also LOVES camping and at the beginning of camping season he is so ready to go – even if the weather would make most curl up with a good book and be thankful they aren’t outside.  So every Easter since we have been together we go camping for Aaron’s birthday and this year was no exception.  We headed out to French beach, which is right on the Ocean, and invited whomever was brave enough to come out with us.  Our fabulous friends Shawna and Chris toughed out the wind, rain, and very smokey campfire to spend two great nights out with us.  On Friday a whole bunch of our good friends came out for the afternoon.  It was cold, wet, and so windy that we are lucky a tree didn’t land on us, but we didn’t care – Aaron’s larger-than-you-can-imagine blue tarp kept us dry (doesn’t hurt to marry a boy scout!) and good friends kept us happy.  After a soggy two days we weren’t tired of Chris and Shawna yet, so we headed out with them for another incredible day.  It started with us scoring a gorgeous huge antique art frame at an antique show, then we scoured a beach for glass and ceramic treasures that wash out of the bank with each tide, and then – oh yes we weren’t done yet – we went to Chris’ family’s sheep farm to see the new lambs!!  We were there a few weeks ago to do a little shoot with them but there were only two little lambs.  This time there were cute fuzzy lambs everywhere!!! Sheep are hilarious!!  They scare easily – look at one the wrong way and it is a fleece stampede. We had to be stealthy when out in the field so that they wouldn’t run away from us.  Don’t worry – no lambs were harmed in the making of these images :) We took cues from the mama to see how close we could get.  The wee ones in the barn weren’t shy at all and one, as you will see, was really curious about the camera. We took so many pics we couldn’t just pick a few so we have included lots to share all the lamb love with you.  Thanks so much to Chris and Shawna for being amazing friends and for bringing us to this special place!


Backlit…LEAVES!

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With the arrival of spring (sort of, it snowed last Sunday) and a new macro lens from Richard and Amy of Red Leaf, it was time to start in on what I look forward to every year, taking photos of backlit leaves.  I would have to say my favorite is the Indian-Plum or Oemleria cerasiformis. Below this is the one with the small oval leaves growing upright off a branch.  Emmy often questions if we need so many photos of leaves, perhaps because they fill a large portion of our hard drive.  To this I say you can never have too many photos of Oemleria cerasiformis.  The photos below have been shot over the last month both in our yard and around Victoria.  Enjoy!